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C. H. GOODWIN.

VGLOVE' PASTENER. Y No. 477,857., Patented Juner28, 1892..

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VUNITisD YSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN, 'OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WATERBURY BUTTON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GLOVE-FASTEN ER. j

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 477,857, dated J une 28, 1892.

Application filed September 7, 1891" Serial No. 404,932. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. GOODWIN, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented 'a new Improvement in Glove-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a vertical central section through the socket member as applied to the glove; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the cap a detached; Fig. 3, a vertical section of the collet b de tached; Fig. 4, a vertical section showing the collet and cap united; Fig. 5, a vertical central section of the collar d; Fig. 6, a vertical central section showing the collar d as applied to a glove; Fig. 7, a vertical central section showing the collar as applied to the glove and with the cap set thereon preparatory to closing; Figs. 8, 9, and 10 modifications.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of glove-fasteners which consists of two members, a stud and a socket member, the stud member being attached to one side of the slit of a glove and the socketmember to the other side, and so that the edges of the glove brought together, the socket is adapted to pass on over the headed stud and thus secure the glove at the wrist, the invention relating specially to the socket member; and it consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

The socket member is composed of a cap a and of a conical-shaped collet b. The cap is made of cup shape, as seen in Fig. 2, and the collet b is of an external diameter corresponding to the internal diameter of the cap a, the outer edges of the collet b turned over and downward, as at c, Fig. 3, and the center is thrown downward into conical shape. The cap and collet are united, as seen in Fig. 4, by placing the collet b Within the cap and then closing the edges of the cap over the turned-down edges of the collet c, and so that the conical portion of the collet will project below the cap, as seen in Fig. 4, thus forming ya conical projecting flange around the opening through the collet. The base consists ot' a collar d, (see Fig. 5,) having its inner edge turned up so as to form a tubular projection e, the projection increasing in diameter from w The collar d is applied upon one side'otv the glove, its tubular projection e extending through a corresponding opening in the glove, and so that the collar d will lie upon one side, while the tubular projection e will project from the opposite side. The depth of the projection e is somewhat less than the depth of the cap and collet. The cap, with its collet, is set over the projection e, as seen in Fig. 7, and then a force is applied which will bring the inner edge of the collet b to bear upon the surface of the glove on that side supported by the collar d, and this force con` tinued will cause the conical collet to contract and close around the smaller diameter of the tubular projection e, as seen in Fig. 1, and thus rmly unite the parts of the socket upon the glove. The socket member thus applied to the glove is used in connection with the stud in the usual manner, it not being deemed necessary to illustrate the stud.

Instead of piercing the glove `for the pas sage of the projection e through it, the collar d may be applied to its side of the glove, and

the material of the glove pressed thereon will l correspondingly raise the portion of the glove over the tubular projection, as seen in Fig. 8. It is therefore not essential to the invention that the glove should be pierced for the applieation of the socket.

Vhile I prefer to make the cap portion of the socket member in two parts-that is, to consist of the cap ct and the collet b--the co1- let and cap may be made in a single piece of metal, as represented in Fig. 9, this'part being made first of cup shape and then the edge drawn inward to produce the Vconical shape, as at f in Fig. 9, and this cap applied in like manner as in the iirst illustration, the conical portion will be contracted .around the projection e of thev collar d, as seen in Fig. 10. It is therefore only necessary to the invention that the opening into the cap portion of the member shall present a conical surface adapted to be contracted around the smaller diameter of the tubular projection e of the collar cl.

I claim- 1. In a glove-fastener consisting of a socket and stud member, the socket member composed of a cap having a central opening in its under side, the sides of the cap around the opening diverging so as to produce substantially a conical surface around the opening into the cap, combined With a disk having a central opening through it of smaller diameter than the opening inthecap', with a lange around the said opening in the disk, the flangev diverging from the disk so as togradually increase its externaly diameter from the disk toward the edge of the flange, the larger eX.- ternal diameter-of the flange corresponding.

substantially'to the internal diameter of the sisting of a cap composed of a collet b of conical shape, having an opening through its ,smaller diameter and with the part a closed ",thereon so as to cover'the larger diameter, Ycombined. -wi-th a collar d, having a central opening of less diameter than the diameter v.' `of the'opening in the cap and With a flange around said opening forming a tubular projection e, the projection expanding in diameter from the collar, its larger diameter corresponding substantially to the internal diameter of thecollet,substantiallyas described, i the said cap and collar being adapted to be 5 set together, and sol that under pressure the conical portion of the cap will be deflected or `turned inward so as to contract aroundy the smaller diameter of the projection onthe i collar.

In testimony whereof I have signed this i specification in the presence'of two subscrib` ing witnesses.

CHARLES H. GO'ODVVIN.

Witnesses:

NATHL. lR. BRoNsoN, HELEN J. BIRKENMAYER. 

